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  2. French space program - Wikipedia

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    Space launch vehicle imagined on a Gobelins tapestry, ordered by Colbert and drawn by Le Brun, 1664.. Space travel has long been a significant ambition in French culture.From the Gobelins' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, [1] to Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, space and rocketry were present in French society long ...

  3. List of space telescopes - Wikipedia

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    Photo Name Space agency Launch date Terminated Location Ref(s) Proton-1: USSR: 16 Jul 1965: 11 Oct 1965: Earth orbit (183-589 km) [2]Proton-2: USSR: 2 Nov 1965

  4. Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology

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    2021 — James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was launched 25 December 2021 on an ESA Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA's flagship mission in astrophysics. 2023 — Euclid, was launched on 1 July 2023 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study dark matter and ...

  5. Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes - Wikipedia

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    James Webb Space Telescope: Earth-Sun L 2 point: Success: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA, ESA and CSA's joint project for a space telescope. It was launched on December 25 with Ariane 5 ECA rocket to Earth-Moon L 2 point. 2022 US: CAPSTONE: Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) of Moon: Operational

  6. GALEX - Wikipedia

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    Launch date: 28 April 2003, 11:59 ... was a NASA orbiting space telescope designed to observe the universe in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the ... France. The ...

  7. CNES - Wikipedia

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    1963: CNES became the first—and only—space agency to successfully launch a cat into space. [9] 1964: Diamant Launch Vehicle introduced. [8] 1965: First French satellite put in orbit. [10] 1967: Hammaguir range closed. [8] 1968: Toulouse Space Centre completed. [11] 1969: Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana completed. [7] 1973: Évry Space ...

  8. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    Launch of the largest space telescope to date. USA (NASA) ESA Canada (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope [82] 26 September 2022: First asteroid measurably deflected by a spacecraft. First spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon (impact on Dimorphos). USA (NASA) DART [83] 23 August 2023 First landing at the lunar south polar region. India

  9. James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The assembly was completed in California in 2015. It was integrated with the rest of the space telescope leading to its 2021 launch. The spacecraft bus can rotate the telescope with a pointing precision of one arcsecond, and isolates vibration to two milliarcseconds. [58]